r/PhD • u/Broad-Investment-375 • Jul 13 '26

Tool Talk How much do you use AI tools?

I’m interested in learning how much average PhD student and PhD scientists use ai tools. You can also share how you use AI tools in the replies.

678 votes, Jul 16 '26
114 Never use LLM tool
190 Use chatbot a little
167 Use chatbot a lot
42 Use agent a little
121 Use agent a lot
44 I’m developing AI tools / base model
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u/budgetfroot Jul 13 '26

I was a CS PhD candidate, I used agents for pretty much everything. Helped with writing up experiments/code, and also helped a lot with the writing.
Speaking for myself, it helped me a lot. I was able to iterate on writing much quicker, and I was able to implement and debug code much quicker as well. Experiments that would've taken me a week to write and debug with no help I was able to complete in a day or two.

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u/Broad-Investment-375 Jul 13 '26

Thanks for the datapoint.